The night was humid.

and then a shot rang out!

I love it when politicians use Blair's trick of starting a sentence with the word "look".

They then usually proceed to talk ballocks for five long minutes and refuse to be interrupted.

Sadly they usually never have anything worth listening too. But they do know how to make sure they do my favourite cliche and that's 'fill their boots'. Wonkers.

Any one who dies instantly from a stab wound.

Any woman who falls down in a horror movie.

The gun shot from 200 feet with a snub nose 38. (barnaby jones comes to mind)

400 rounds from any gun that doesn't need reloading.

I could go on and on....

Shawn....><

You can die instantly from a stab wound.


Phil

Splitting hairs are we...

The scene is a struggle between two men...

Of course the woman stands in the background screaming..

They come together...

They look into one anothers eyes in shock..

One man falls with a knife in his stomach...

Dead instantly.

My brother was stabbed six times during an attack and is still kicking. A bit mental, but none the less on this side of the turf.

I was talking of the cleche style of dieing.

Shawn.....><

I'm not reading all these entries to see if this one has been made mention of

But --

I cannot fuggin' stand it when, in every horror movie, a girl has to be the center of the story.  For once... Just once, I'd like to see a strong ass dude,  a bad ass at that, be the focal point.  

Imagine a movie where the killer, who's a bad ass, sets his sights on someone who's even badder.  But he don't know it.  And then it's like the killer just made a stupid mistake because he's about to get fucked up.

In every slasher it's always some presumed "weak" girl who turns out to be more cunning than the killer and beats him by way of cat and mouse.  I'd like the Bizarro version, myself.

-Killer
-Bad Ass dude
-no cat and mouse
-Just balls out tooth and nail

And maybe for good measure kill off the would be protag girl at the start to make it a point that this isn't that kind of movie.

End rant.

Quoted Text Imagine a movie where the killer, who's a bad A**, sets his sights on someone who's even badder.  But he don't know it.  And then it's like the killer just made a stupid mistake because he's about to get f****d up.

Where've you been, Balt? That's been tried and done many, many times. Sometimes the movie suffers for it and sometimes it makes it better.

Evil Dead II and The Hills Have Eyes (remake) come to mind off the top of my head, and more recently The Midnight Meat Train movie version of Cliver Barker's short story as well as the MoH episode "Family."

Friday 13th pt. 5 and 6 also spring to mind.

But I agree with your general opinion. The "final girl" niche has become one of the most annoying to me in the last few years. "Say hi to mommy..in HELL" during the climax of that terrible F13 remake was the last bit I could take. No more.Although, to that movie's credit, it DID kill off a character that would have survived any other slasher flick.

--Julio

People, who vacate their houses, never shut or lock the front door on their way out.

This one happens quite a bit. Somebody decides to leave town, for whatever reason, and they don't tell anyone. Later, somebody comes looking for them and discovers the front door left ajar and they walk in to find that the person has moved out. Or they knock on the door and it creaks open.

"Have a nice day"

Quoted from Bachman People, who vacate their houses, never shut or lock the front door on their way out. This one happens quite a bit. Somebody decides to leave town, for whatever reason, and they don't tell anyone. Later, somebody comes looking for them and discovers the front door left ajar and they walk in to find that the person has moved out. Or they knock on the door and it creaks open.

Sometimes that suggests they vacate their houses. We don't know if they locked it or not.

Once we return to the house it's clear the door is open.

This begs the question: was it left unlocked. Or has someone else been in.

Is it a cliche? Sometimes. Depends on the director.

A group of cool/bad guys, usually 4-5, walking in slow motion, just to emphasize how cool/bad they are.  

A guy in a bar gets pushed into a jukebox which causes the jukebox and an all in brawl to start.